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Received my Tamron 17-70mm today...

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Lettermanian
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Re: Received my Tamron 17-70mm today...
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BeatX wrote:

Thx for sharing Your opinion

Uhh.. That Tamron 17-70/2.8 is big! I mean it looks like similar size to any 24-105/4 FF zoom lenses (?) for me personally standard zoom lens of this size for APSC camera is wired idea. Beside VC (and Fuji color science), there is very little adventages of such huge lens attached to Fuji camera, where You Can get for example R6 + 24-105/4 IS L lens in similar size compared to X-T4 + T17/70/2.8. And You got all adventages of FF sensor, plus better AF.

In my opinion, new Sigma 18-55/2.8 is essense of standard zoom for APSC camera (or Tamron 18-300 for hiking)

A 2.8 lens is still a 2.8 lens in terms of light gathering, so there's not a direct comparison to a 24-105 f4. A 2.8 24-105 on ff would be huge and heavy. I've recently owned Nikon's Z5 and 6ii w/24-200, a Panasonic S5 with a 24-105 f4, and they're all very nice and full-framey, but as a system Fuji still has advantages for my purposes: better ooc colours and reach in a lighter-weight package than ff. There's no ff lens in any current system that gives 450mm-equiv non-cropped images at the size and weight of Fuji's 70-300. While the 17-70 is big, it's lighter and slimmer than Fuji's own 16-55mm f2.8, so for Fuji users it can be advantageous, if the IQ is close.

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Fujifilm X-T3 Carl Zeiss Touit 2.8/12 Tamron 17-70 F2.8 Di III-A VC RXD Fujifilm XF 70-300 F4-5.6 R LM OIS WR
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